The Hawaiian gazette., 1887-12-06
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

SAwBoNEs was better equipped IN
those days than conceited moderns
may imagine. Among recent inter
esting results of excavations in
Pompeii was the turning up OF a
wooden case, containing a complete
set of surgical instruments, many OF
them similar to those used in the
present day.
The United States Life Saving
Service, whose snug and well-kept
stations are a feature of the coasts, is
credited with having saved 25,236
lives since its establishment in 1871.
However little this saving of popula-
ton may be appreciated by modern
Malthusians, it is certainly most graf
flying to our humanity.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, the Imperial
Fisheries Commissioner, was inter-
viewed at once by about twenty news
paper men in Washington. About
the only definite view the scribes OBJ
tanned from the famous Radical was
that the purpose of the Commission
was to make an entirely new treaty
between Great Britain and the United
States.
The depth of American liberty is be-
ing sounded in hitherto unexplored
part. DIR. Shufeldt, of the army,
very talented gentleman and member
of learned societies on two CONT
nents, also son of Admiral Shufeldt,
of the navy, is about being tried for
violating the rules of military service
by writing on political subject in
the Nation.
AT a recent session of the American
Public Association held at Memphis,
Tenn, resolutions were adopted, urg-
ing upon the quarantine authorities
of maritime ports and elsewhere to
exercise the utmost possible vigilance.
This should be well taken by the
Hawaiian authorities, in view of the
fact that various dreadful diseases
are now chronically present on shores
bounding the Pacific on both sides.
Two cases of leprosy-+a mother and
daughter being the afflicted ones,
without knowing the fact them
selves-are under the secret charge
of a doctor in Philadelphia. They
contracted the disease in South
America To a reporter the doctor
said that the malady was regarded as
contagious, but not in the ordinary
acceptation of the term, and he depre
Gated arousing anxious apprehension
regarding the unwelcome presence.
AMERICANS bid fair to lose a stock
subject of satire in the rehabilitation
of their navy Commodore Wilson,
Chief of the Bureau of Construction
and Repairs of the Navy Department,
in concluding his annual report, says:
"The outlook for the Navy in the fu-
ture is very hopeful, and with the
completion of the vessels now pro-
jected the navy will consist of num-
Der of modern vessels admirably
adapted to the varied needs of the
service" A table attached to the re
port shows that in three years they
shall have twenty-one wooden vessels
remaining, in six years but four, and
IN nine years the entire wooden navy
will have disappeared.
SAN Francisco is threatened with
the loss of its position as Quitting
and sailor shipping station for the
! New Bedford whaling fleet. Secret
negotiations are in progress between
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Railroad Company and the New Bed
ford shipowners, now Oh the Coast,
for granting the latter advantages of
free wharfage at San Diego, reduced
rates of freight on oil and whalebone
shipped East and concessions in the
shape of rates to masters and officers
of the whalers. who may desire to
visit their homes on the Atlantic.
San Francisco can probably save the
valuable trade-representing a local
expenditure altogether of about $3.50, :
000-only by taking prompt action in
making liberal concessions to the
owners of the fleet.
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The Value of CircumstaD tial Evil
dence.